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Long weekend was long
But not long enough… back at work today and it’s rough 🙁 So what all did I get up to this weekend… well starting with Thursday night, Chase and I went to the High School Musical Theater Awards. It was supposed to have been me and mom going, because one of the schools we did costumes for was nominated for…
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hulk smash
I am getting SO frustrated with USPS. The last two small things I’ve ordered — my tablet glove back in March, and now my fabric swatches — have both gone missing. The tablet glove made it to Memphis and then just disappeared. After 3 weeks Amazon refunded it (not like it was expensive to start with)… and then it finally…
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meanwhile back
Hi! I actually did costume stuff this weekend! I am here to tell you about it! But first let’s start with Friday. Both Chase and I worked a half day Friday – why? Because Chase’s documentary Finding Tobey had its first screening that night!! He has been working on this for FOUR YEARS, and it’s finally done. We decided to…
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ow my face
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while! I’ve had nothing to post about. Haven’t been working on anything – but finally going fabric shopping this weekend YAY. And hopefully my fabric samples I ordered earlier this week will also be here today so I can place the order for that. So what have I been up to otherwise? Wellllll let…
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OMG
Ok so here is a super random-a-little-bit-of-everything post since I have various updates and news and a few little things that don’t deserve their own post so I’ll stick them here. First and FOREMOST…. So yesterday I’m just working away at my desk and I get a fb notification on my phone. So I look at it and… I WON…
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Photoshoot Stuff!! Part two
I got the rest of my photoshoot stuff uploaded over the weekend! First up is Bespin Leia. Some thoughts. I took the length up of the tunic a bit for the photoshoot but it created too much fabric at the waist/belt-line and looked sloppy 🙁 I think I just need to take the whole thing apart and go back to…
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Queen Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair Tutorial Part 2 – The Hairpiece!
So a couple of years ago I did a tutorial on how I did my hair for my Amidala Parade costume. I used my own hair, just put into little buns, teased, and pinned in a certain way. It wasn’t perfect but it worked OK. I have been playing around with the idea of making a hairpiece for AGES. I…
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John Williams Tribute!
This weekend we got to do a really fun event – the Memphis Symphony Orchestra was doing a John Williams tribute and invited us out for it. Friday night we went up to the rehearsal to get an idea of what they wanted us to do. For each Star wars song they wanted a related character or characters onstage. For…
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Photoshoot Stuff!! Part One
Sorry I haven’t posted this week! It’s been busy! This past weekend we did the symphony event — which I’ll talk about the next post — and we’d originally planned to do this photoshoot before we left for the event Saturday night. But my tiara wasn’t quite ready Saturday, and there was yardwork that needed to be done before the…
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Sorry for broken images! (fixed!)
It would appear that something has changed in the way smugmug is allowing linking and a lot of my images are suddenly (and frustratingly) broken. I’m hoping it’s maybe just a server issue and I won’t have to go through and manually fix everything. My apologies until it’s sorted out! Edit: All fixed! Thankfully it was just the most recent…
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Pink Palace event
Yesterday we did a little event at the Pink Palace! One of my fav places in the world. Since it was earlier in the day, Chase couldn’t get off in time for it so mom drove us over. (After New Year’s Eve I refuse to drive in costume unless I absolutely have to LOL) Since it was a Deep Space…
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a hairpiece!
So as I mentioned earlier I’ve been trying to put together a hairpiece for my Queen Amidala costume. This is something I’ve tried to do for ages — finally attempted it in 2010 but gave up. So here we are again. Trying to make a hairpiece for a 12 year old costume. But if I can make this work it…
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a weird weekend
I made a to-do list friday, let’s see what I accomplished… Amidala: 1. Clean the dress. 2. Redye the lower petals. 3. Remake or fix current tiara. 4. Make a new hairpiece. Bespin Leia: 1. Shorten the tunic! 2. Fix my pleating. I guess half isn’t bad. Friday is when I got most of that done. I hand-washed the dress…
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a to-do list
I have a to-do list even though we’re on the wrong side of the convention, haha. But I have a few things I need to get done over this weekend — I’m doing an event in Amidala next weekend, so she needs some attention. And while I have it on we are going to do a white backdrop photoshoot, and…
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Trip Photos – Round 2
So I wrote the whole trip report out yesterday but of course I only had iphone photos. Today I have our photopass and Chase’s pics uploaded! So here’s a few. Kevin hadn’t met Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny, and we were able to pretty much walk right up and get a photo with them the first day. Honestly I probably…
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Home again
We’re home! And I’m sick with a sinus infection AGAIN. I think I’ve come home with a sinus infection from at least 4 of our Orlando trips in the last year. This one is a real bear, it came on Friday night so all day Saturday and Sunday my face HURT. But I’ll get to that later. Let’s start at…
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it is (almost) time
Half hour til I’m out of work for the next week yeeeeeeeeeees!!! Still got errands to run this weekend, and packing to do, and a little more sewing. Need to fix Kevin’s belt and I need to tighten up the yoke to the collar stitching. I realized my tunic is a little long and looked at trying to raise the…
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IT’S DONE!!
Last night around 8pm I put the last touches on Bespin Leia. It is officially DONE. There’s some stuff that’s not perfect. My chiffon ended up stretching during the embroidery especially on the two front panels, so the front hemmed edges want to be a little wavy. One side is better than the other. I may add weights to the…
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ahhhhhhhhhh
IT’S ALMOST DONE!!!! Ok so wow I haven’t posted in a week. Let me play catch up. I got the lining reattached to the embroidered piece. I pleated and repleated and rerepleated and rerereplealted and rerererepleated it all onto the yoke about 500 times. I got the trim sewn on the tunic Wednesday night. Friday I had the day off!…
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I just can’t do it!!
So, I finished Yoke #3 and it’s all right. It’s not greeeeeat but it’ll do. It’s not like I could try again, there’s no fabric left! After that photo I did take the collar off and inset it into the yoke so there’s no ugly seam sticking out between them. This resulted in a kinda ugly stitch line where it’s…
